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How Useful is the Advice: "Fill up a Handful of Sunscreen and Spread it All Over Your Body"

NCT03627260 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 31

Last updated 2018-08-13

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The advice: "Fill up a handful of sunscreen and spread it all over your body" is used in several sun safety campaigns. The hope is that users in swimwear following the advice will apply a sunscreen quantity of 2 mg/cm\^2 to all accessible skin. The present study is the first to investigate how this advice works in practice.

Conditions

  • Quantity of Sunscreen
  • Sun Protection Factor
  • Sun Safety Campaigns
  • Sunscreen Use

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Fill up a handful of sunscreen and spread it all over your body. Sunscreen, Actinica

Volunteers were asked to follow the rule of thumb: "Fill up a handful of sunscreen and spread it all over your body".

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Bispebjerg Hospital

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-05-01
Primary Completion
2017-07-29
Completion
2017-07-29

Countries

  • Denmark

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